, involve the immediate (two-day) exchange of assets.
involve the exchange of assets at some specified future date.
is the exchange rate for the forward transaction.
Canadian dollar prices of selected foreign currencies (monthly averages). Note that a decline in
these plots means a weakening of the Canadian dollar, and an increase indicates a strengthen-
ing of the Canadian dollar.
Statistics Canada CANSIM II Series V37426, V37430, V37456, and V21570998.
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on November 18, 2009, it was valued at 1.5798 dollars. The euro
depreciated
by 10.24%: (1.5798
*
1.76)/1.76
+ *
10.24%. Equivalently, we could say that
the Canadian dollar, which went from a value of 0.57 euros per dollar at the
beginning of 1999 to a value of 0.63 euros per dollar on November 18, 2009,
appreciated
by 10.53%: (0.63
*
0.57)/0.57
+
10.53%
Exchange rates are important because they affect the relative price of domestic
and foreign goods. The dollar price of French goods to a Canadian is determined
by the interaction of two factors: the price of French goods in euros and the
euro/dollar exchange rate.
Suppose that Wanda the Winetaster, a Canadian, decides to buy a bottle
of 1961 (a very good year) Ch teau Lafite Rothschild to complete her wine
cellar. If the price of the wine in France is 1000 euros and the exchange rate is
$1.32 to the euro, the wine will cost Wanda $1320 (1000 euros
,
$1.32/euro).
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Foreign Exchange Rates
dollar row for the euro column. To find the U.S.
dollar (USD) price of euros, we look across the
U.S. dollar row for the euro column and see that
USD/euro
+
USD 1.494.
By dividing USD/euro by CDN/euro, we find
the implied cross rate for USD
+
0.9457, which
is the same as the rate that we find by looking
across the U.S. dollar row for the Canadian
dollar column.
Foreign exchange rates are published daily in
the financial pages of newspapers and on the
web. The entries from Bloomberg, shown here,
are explained in the text.
The entry for the Canadian dollar (CAD)
gives the cross rate for several currencies on
November 18, 2009. For example, we find that
the Canadian dollar per euro (EUR) exchange
rate is $1.5798 by looking across the Canadian
Source:
Reprinted from Bloomberg.com with permission on November 18, 2009.
Why Are
Exchange
Rates
Important?
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Throughout this book we use the symbol $ for the Canadian dollar. We denote the United States
dollar using the symbol US$.
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